Jason Ray Brown is a multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter. He simultaneously plays drums, guitar, harmonica and sings, all live with no loops or pre-recorded music. At his shows, Jason sometimes swaps his guitar for the banjo, mandolin, or ukulele. His vocal delivery is smooth and soulful, his guitar playing is sophisticated and tasteful. Formally trained, Jason's musicianship ranges in genre from rock, blues and country to soul, jazz and reggae. His original songs and cover selections reflect that diversity.
Growing from the fertile musical grounds of nearby Chicago, Overman is the result of four distinct voices and their broad influences, congealing to create a unique and multifaceted, yet popular and accessible, musical identity. Overman has been featured on WGN TVs Nationally Televised Midday News, in Skeptic Magazine, by NPR, on AMCs Emmy winning television show Breaking Bad. Their song Evolution Rocks is officially endorsed by the National Science Teachers Association, and has been used as a teaching supplement in countless countless classrooms all over the nation.
Overman's sound speaks, variously, of the pop sensibilities of the Beatles, of the storytelling of American folk, of alternative rock and of Delta blues. A melodic cocktail that has led fans, contemporaries, and professionals to make comparisons to everyone from The Rolling Stones to Frank Zappa to early Wilco.
He was born 1956, in McComb, Mississippi, a town so small that shotgun houses were the norm, and grew up in Swan Lake in the Mississippi Delta, where almost everyone worked on the nearby plantation.
CHAINSAW DUPONT has defied and embraced the fates from day one. His life experience is expressed in his "Street Trilogy" of CDs: Lake St. Lullaby, Bourbon St. Breakdown, and Ghost Kings of Beale St.
Laura and the Longhairs are an impressive and popular local rock band.
Laura McDonald provides the expressive vocals, Jeff Weydert and Jimmy Berg provide the Guitar and Drums for this diverse combo.
